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Recent Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team Member Highlights:
- Carlton Fields' Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team recently compiled a Pharma Alert summarizing the 2009 Top 10 Pharma decisions from Florida and the Eleventh Circuit.
- Carlton Fields was recently mentioned on the Drug and Device Law Blog in a blog post entitled “Containing Conte.”
- Group member Ed Gerecke has been named as a faculty member of the 38th Annual Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel held July 31 - August 6, 2010 at the Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, California.
- Group member Penelope Dixon recently provided a “year-in-review” presentation at the ABA Section of Litigation’s Environmental, Mass Torts, and Products Liability Litigation Committees Joint CLE Seminar on January 28-30, 2010 in Avon, Colorado.
Carlton Fields' Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team specializes in defending drug and medical device manufacturers in individual, mass tort, class action, and other complex litigation matters from inception through appeal. Our Team works on these types of matters on a daily basis, and is able to put together groups of experienced lawyers throughout the Southeast dedicated to the defense of a single product or set of claims. We possess significant experience with experts in virtually every area of medicine and damages assessment. These relationships enable our team to jump into a case, establish productive working relationships with all parties involved, and develop a strategy that best serves the client's goals.
The Team has extensive experience litigating before state and federal court judges across the Southeast, as well as working with attorneys on both sides of the bar. The Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team attorneys are also skilled legal drafters and orators, and have enjoyed numerous successes defeating claims via dispositive motions and during other pre-trial stages. Additionally, our attorneys are widely recognized for their knowledge of pharmaceutical and medical device law and related issues, and frequently lecture and publish articles and newsletters and participate in numerous professional organizations.
Success cannot come without first knowing our clients' goals. At Carlton Fields, we can and do work with our clients to reach creative, alternative billing arrangements that best suit the client's needs. Our innovative approach to staffing and administering cases is received favorably by clients across the nation.
We are courtroom lawyers.
The attorneys in Carlton Fields’ Products and Toxic Tort Liability Practice Group, in which our Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team are members, have significant trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts and have tried cases on behalf of numerous drug and medical device clients. Our trial lawyers have extensive experience defending and managing product liability cases, including class action and mass tort litigation.
Carlton Fields has a preeminent, nationally recognized Appellate and Trial Support Practice Group that advises and supports Carlton Fields' litigators, including the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team. Our appellate lawyers frequently participate in developing pre-trial strategy, motion practice, and trial preparation; advise on evidentiary issues; write and argue motions before, during, and after trial; and handle appeals. By involving our appellate lawyers in cases early on, especially in regards to key outcome-determinative legal issues, we are able to achieve greater efficiencies and better results.
We have the resources to manage complex litigation.
When our clients face complex and challenging litigation, the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team calls upon the firm’s litigation support teams, including our Expert Team, to assist in providing efficient and effective representation for our clients. The Expert Team closely monitors and analyzes decisions on expert witness issues, and disseminates pertinent and timely information across the firm. Because of this, our Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team is well prepared to deal with expert witnesses issues, including admissibility and challenges to expert testimony under federal and state law.
Carlton Fields’ E-Discovery Team closely monitors developments in e-discovery issues, including the recent changes to the Federal Rules. This Team works with clients and the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team prior to and at the onset of litigation to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of client discovery efforts, ensure compliance with applicable laws and rules, and reduce client exposure.
Our Class Action Team is comprised of lawyers with extensive experience addressing the challenges of class action litigation. The Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team regularly calls on the Class Action Team to advise on class action litigation avoidance and steps to take when dealing with class actions.
Carlton Fields uses document management software that enables the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team to organize, digitize, and make available to clients and co-counsel discovery materials, client materials, attorney work product, and litigation status reports in a secure extranet environment.
We are diverse.
We believe that persons with diverse backgrounds enrich our work environment, add value to the legal services that we provide, and enhance the overall culture of the firm. In support of our diverse talent, Carlton Fields established the Minority Lawyer Network (MLN), Women's Initiative Network (WIN), and the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN). Primary members of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team in the Minority Lawyer Network are Penelope A. Dixon and Jaret J. Fuente. Primary members of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team in the Women’s Initiative Network are Penelope A. Dixon, Amy Lane Hurwitz, and Suzanne M. Elinger.
We have found that we make better decisions and provide better client service because of our diversity. Our climate of diversity promotes thoughtful communication, purposeful collaboration, varied perspectives, and creative solutions as we address our clients’ problems and as we help our clients identify opportunities.
We advance our clients’ interests in court and elsewhere.
Our Government Consulting Practice Group represents numerous clients before the Florida legislature and various state executive and regulatory agencies. Carlton Fields attorneys have significant experience in Florida’s tort reform efforts, including active participation in TRUE (Tort Reform United Effort), a lobbying and public affairs coalition of businesses and associations brought together and funded with the goal of substantially amending Florida tort law.
Furthermore, many of our attorneys are former judicial clerks who possess in-depth knowledge of the judicial systems and courtroom procedures. Our Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team regularly argues motions and tries cases before these courts. That, in addition to our presence in our region for over 100 years, has earned our attorneys a reputation for excellence.
We represent industry leaders in a wide array of matters.
Our Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Team has defended clients in claims throughout the Southeast and elsewhere involving a wide variety of pharmaceutical products and medical devices, including:
- adhesion barriers
- analgesic pumps
- anti-depressants
- anti-psychotic medications
- anti-seizure medications
- antibiotics
- birth control medications
- cholesterol drugs
- contact lenses
- Cox-II inhibitors
- denture cream
- diabetes drugs
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- diet drugs
- erectile dysfunction drugs
- hip and knee implants
- hormone replacement therapy drugs
- IUDs
- lasik machines
- latex gloves
- over-the-counter weight loss supplements
- over-the-counter cold/flu medicines
- silicone breast implants
- surgical staplers
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